This. When you have internal dissent at home, you make up external existential threats. Hell, it works for us doesn't it?
I don't remember much internal dissent in the late 90s. For that matter, there isn't a whole lot right now, either, even Occupy basically came to nothing.
Indeed. I think I've heard about this guy on the radio. When it comes to the 'murdering psychopath' twist, it was identified that you not only needed the genes, they also generally had to be 'activated' by a horribly abusive childhood.
IE you have a reasonably well adjusted member of society if you raised your potential psychopath well, or a person without the genes horribly(sad as that is). It's only when the two mix that you get serial killers.
Just because you're a psychopath doesn't mean you need to be a murderer - as I like to joke: 'I'd have no problems killing you, but hiding the bodies is such a pain'.
Personally, I believe in the 'social contract'. Humans are NOT set up to 'go at it alone'.
I think this is extremely unlikely. First of all, China will have to match US spending before they can exceed it. And to do that, they need to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars away from their already very poor interior. Second, the US accounts for something like half of their exports. Since the conventional wisdom is that the only reason the Chinese government can keep legitimacy is through high economic growth, it would be suicidal for them to risk that trade - even if it would severely damage the US economy.
It is possible that your thesis could play out when and if they get enough of a domestic market that they don't depend on export growth anymore. China is nearly as large as the US, and so it has vast resources - but don't forget that it also has several times the US population, so those resources won't go as far. If they are importing oil and raw materials, they will be just as susceptible to supply line disruption as the US is today. In other words, they might be able to afford a huge military - but they will need it for reasons other than standing off with the US. Especially if they keep pissing off their neighbors.
Ah I suspected as much. Many thanks.
Does anyone profit anymore with GPU rigs, or do you have to shell out $10K and then wait a year for a Butterfly Labs box.
Which one do you contribute to?
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"[P]erchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that."
PayPal never was popular for porn. On any given day of your choice, there was 100 times as many PayPal transactions on eBay than PayPal transactions for porn.
Porn went from AdultCheck and other AVS systems to iBill and a few iBill competitors. With the fall of iBill, CCBill took over the adult sector.
*shrug* There was pretty much a complete rewrite of everything HTML, CSS and JS related in VS 2012. But, suite yourself.
The one they use until he drops it, then they start calling his cell phone..
While everyone gets an occasional scam call, getting them *all day long* sounds really odd and i think there is more going on here that we ( or the OP ) don't know about.
If you are only getting an occasional scam call, consider yourself lucky.
I'm debt free, and I still get phone calls from bogus debt collection agencies
But my television service displays who is calling on the screen. Any phone call that is "800 service", "Unknown" "Number not available" or "Out of Area", just gets blocked now. It slows them down for a while, then a new batch of scammers starts up. Right now, I get around 10 a day, and none are legit. My SO wants the landline otherwise, I'd just have it disconnected.
Did you miss the part about training more? It's pretty much the whole summary.
There is a very odd misconception in the world today. That is the idea, that all you have to do is plug in someone, anyone, into a job slot, and the results are the same.
It certainly isn't. The question that needs asked, is do an equal amount of young women even want to become programmers?
I have participated in many "Take your sons and daughters to work" days, and have been in on the efforts to get young women interested in tech fields and engineering.
These are the daughters of tech people and engineers, so you would expect there to be some interest.
Haven't found much at all. The young ladies prefer fields like lawyers, MBA's, and medical fields. This is a sampling of hundreds.
So we are left with perhaps forcing young ladies into tech fields?
Oh, you don't know of the time in the past, like say the 80's when a lot of Slashdotters were growing up...that the commodore 64 that was bought for them... wouldn't have been if they were girls?
And don't forget, men are disgusting pigs.
The only desirable trait they're looking for is one that will make a quick profit. They've got lawyers and corporate sovereignty to protect them from any downside, so bombs away!
And since the end users. the ones who will eat these products, are not the customers of Monstanto, etc, they don't really give a fuck if any of us want these "desirable traits".
Yes and no. Vietnam cuddled up to the U.S., not the other way around. They felt threatened by China. Can you imagine that?
The Philippines told the U.S. to go suck eggs years ago when they closed the U.S. bases. Then the Muslims in the south got armed and pissed, the Philippines decided a bit of military training with U.S. advisers would be acceptable. But China next decided they owned the entire S. China Sea right down the Philippines. The Philippine government then more or less said, "bases, shmases, let's be buddies again like the good old days when you booted out the Japanese."
China brought increased U.S. involvement in SE Asia on themselves.
It doesn't have anything to do with ICANN. It has everything to do with China realizing it cannot keep expanding its economy without a lock on a lot more natural resources. They've already claimed most of the S. China Sea all the way down the Philippines. Their "deals" in Africa are designed to lock in their claim to Africa's natural resources. They have even expressed an interest in making claims in the Arctic.
Put quickly, there is no governor on China's ambitions. Their domestic politics requires them to keep their young people supplied with enough interest in economic gain so that they don't turn to political interests. They also see the U.S. as a declining power.
This is only the beginning. It will be rough century.
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